In a word, no. There is no way to have CMA call your Action when a user logs in. There are alternatives, however.
If all your requests go through Actions, you could add code to your app's Action base class to ensure that the profile information is there. I think there are more alternatives of where to put that kind of processing in the 1.1 version of Struts. Or you could create a filter that would look for profile info, add it if the user is authenticated but there is no profile -- that would work no matter if your requests are all handled by Actions or not. Or you could create a method that you would use to access the profile info, and the method would create it just-in-time if it had not been initialized yet. I am not completely sure where you want to get the role information, but you must setup the CMA to have access to your role info if you want other software packages to be able to use that info. Those packages depend on using the request.isUserInRole() method from the Servlet spec. That method will work with a properly setup CMA system, or you can write a filter and request wrapper to do a custom implementation. Your CMA system must have access to the roles so that you can do url-pattern based declarative security -- without being able to protect resources by url pattern, no users will ever be authenticated. I created an open-source filter and request wrapper implementation that mimics container-managed security. You may find it useful as-is, or it could be the base of a customized system if your app has needs that it or CMA does not address: http://securityfilter.sourceforge.net/ -Max ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohan Radhakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:15 AM Subject: CMA and LoginAction > Hi > > I would like to use role based authentication. That is CMA. Now I > also want to call my Action class. The idea is to use > > <logic:present role="name"/> > > My Action class sets up user profiles based on the login ID etc. Is this > possible ? > > Mohan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
